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Re:Microsoft Joins the Open Invention Network by justinclift on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @01:33PM (#18187120)
Hang on, are you seriously saying people need to create a MS online account just in order to tell their own computer to NOT send data to MS?

That's ridiculous. There should be an obvious friggin question during install "Enable telemetry and data collection?" and if the answer is no... that's it. No telemetry or data collection gets done. Ever. End of story and question doesn't get asked again. Ever.

Any other approach is literally just weasel words trying to deceive people. "Just manually change this RegKey setting" is a good example.

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Re:Microsoft Joins the Open Invention Network by bradford on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @01:41PM (#18187186)
No, I'm saying that if you want to view or delete the data that MS has collected, you need an MSA.

If you want to downgrade/disable it, you follow the instructions in the links provided.

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